A very interesting play
about the manner in which India and Pakistan were divided. The play was written
by Howard Brenton who also wrote 55 days (see 29 October 2012) and stressed the
unseemly haste with which the division was made by Cyril Radcliffe. He knew
nothing about India and based the division on what information he could gather
on demographics. However, he was, not surprisingly, leant on to finesse some of
his conclusions, particularly by the Viceroy, Mountbatten. All this, while
having a severe case of Montezuma's
Revenge.
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